Galatea

de Miguel de Cervantes

traducida por Erica Baum 

In the states of love,

no one becomes perfect,

but the honest and secret.

To reach the soft

taste of love, if you get it right,

the secret is the door,

and honesty the key.

And who presumes to be discreet,

don't know this entrance!

but the honest and secret.

Loving human beauty

is usually reproved,

if such love is not measured

with reason and honesty.

And love of such quality

then it reaches, indeed,

to whom is honest and secret.

It is already a proven case,

cannot be denied,

that sometimes the speech loses,

what silence gains.

And whoever is in love,

will never be in trouble,

if it is honest and secret.

While the chattering tongue and the bold eyes

usually cause thousand rages and put the soul in the dark,

more decreases the pain and frees from that bind,

whom is honest and secret.

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Imágen: "Galtea" by Flaminia Rossi